The total number of births in Japan this year is expected to come in below 670,000—far fewer than the official forecasts put ...

Japanese 2024 births dipped below 700,000 for the first time, according to government data released Wednesday. Births dropped 5.7% to 686,061. Net population declined for the 18th year in a row. File ...

Gestational diabetes rose every single year in the U.S. from 2016 through 2024, according to a new Northwestern Medicine ...

TOKYO (Reuters) - The number of babies born in Japan fell to a record low of 720,988 in 2024 for a ninth consecutive year of decline, the health ministry said on Thursday, underscoring the rapid ...

After years of ominous headlines about the world's shrinking birth rates, there's a bright spot. The US birth rate increased slightly in 2024, according to preliminary data from the CDC. The 1% rise ...

New Hampshire had 11,761 births in 2024, the lowest number in modern times, as a bump in births after COVID has ended and the state has returned to the long trend of fewer babies being born here every ...

Ireland's Central Statistics Office (CSO) has released its Vital Statistics Yearly Summary 2024 report on Friday, May 23. "The CSO’s 2024 Vital Statistics yearly summary provides a snapshot of the ...

A report by the Registry General recorded a drop in both births and deaths in Bermuda in 2024, while the number of marriages ...

June 4 (UPI) --Japanese 2024 births dipped below 700,000 for the first time, according to government data released Wednesday. Births dropped 5.7% to 686,061 as Japan's population dropped by roughly ...